linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/6] menuconfig: jump to search results

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Date:	Thu, 2 Aug 2012 10:18:47 -0400
From:	Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@...e.de>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@...fusion.mobi>,
	Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com>,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] menuconfig: jump to search results

On 2012/08/02 15:32, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 09:17:51AM -0400, Benjamin Poirier wrote:
> > > * when searching for "DELAY" for example, I get results without numbers
> > > to which I can't jump to:
> > > 
> > > ...
> > >   │ Symbol: DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE [=0]
> > >   │ Type  : integer
> > >   │
> > >   │
> > >   │ Symbol: IO_DELAY_TYPE_0X80 [=0]
> > >   │ Type  : integer
> > > ...
> > > 
> > > maybe because they don't have "---help---" section?
> > 
> > Because they don't have a prompt - they don't appear in any menu at all.
> > In that case there's nowhere to jump to. That's why those symbols don't
> > get a number.
> 
> Right, so how about you don't show them at all then?

It's a search for CONFIG_ symbols not "menus". Even though the user
doesn't have direct control over some symbols, it's still useful to know
they exist and (possibly) what enables them. For example, searching for
LOCKDEP tells me I can enable DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC to get it.

Besides, this patchset to add the jumps keys didn't change that behavior at
all. You're gonna get the same search results with the current menuconfig.
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